A Moment in Wine 2023

The Artefact A Moment in Wine 2023 label depicts the year’s defining moments in a design inspired by the Byzantine-era mosaic discovered under an olive orchard in the Bureij refugee camp, located in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The mosaic’s grout was hand drawn, and then over 12,000 individual painted tiles were placed one-by-one into the design, replicating the original approach that would’ve been taken. No two tiles are identical.

Made from the GF1 Bacchus clone, we hand-harvested the grapes in October 2023 in East Devon. Then we crushed and destemmed them into four 300-litre Tuscan amphorae, spending 21 days on skins and fermenting with indigenous yeasts before ageing for 18 months on lees. There was no fining or filtration.

Tasting wine is an individual experience; no two notes could ever truly align. At our first tasting of the Artefact A Moment in Wine 2023, we captured that top notes of persimmon and tangerine lead into a Muscadet-style palate, where saline texture and a subtle mineral graininess create texture and freshness.

We love it alongside steamed mussels with cider, leeks and chorizo.

There were just 1200 bottles of Artefact A Moment in Wine 2023 made.

ABV 10.82%